Assessment and recalibration of the Heliosat-2 method in global horizontal irradiance modeling over the desert environment of the UAE

Solar Energy

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1816-1825

  Eissa, Yehia ^a   Chiesa, Matteo ^a   Ghedira, Hosni ^a  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Diffuse irradiance; Global horizontal irradiance; Heliosat; Linke turbidity; Solar resource assessment

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; AIRBORNE DUSTS; CLEAR SKY; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; DIFFUSE HORIZONTAL IRRADIANCE; DIFFUSE IRRADIANCE; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; GLOBAL HORIZONTAL IRRADIANCE; GROUND BASED; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; GROUND NETWORKS; GROUND SURFACES; HELIOSAT; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HIGH HUMIDITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOCATION DEPENDENTS; MEAN BIAS ERRORS; METEOSAT; RECALIBRATIONS; REMOTE ESTIMATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOLAR RESOURCES; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; VISIBLE CHANNELS;

MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

TURBIDITY;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BENCHMARKING; CALIBRATION; CLEAR SKY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLOUD COVER; DESERT; DUST; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HUMIDITY; IRRADIANCE; METEOSAT; REMOTE SENSING; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE SENSOR; SEVIRI; SOFTWARE;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 84860575531     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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